History spot

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Against the general background, the city was an island of prosperity. But here, too, the authorities had to introduce restrictions on the quantity of some goods sold per person. For example, in 1979, in Norilsk, temporary supply standards were introduced for washing powder - no ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The entire Arctic part of the border along the Arctic ocean from the Kola peninsula to Chukotka - 13 thousand kilometers - Travin overcame by a bicycle, dog sled, on hunting skis or on foot. He also crossed Taimyr, where he experienced the most difficult ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. For example, the Home Goods store sold greenhouses and gardening tools for household farms to Norilsk residents, while the Harvest store offered mixed fodder. What is interesting – Norilsk residents bought both. Lefty salon on Nansen street offered craftsmen their machines, tools and, most important, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At that time, not only the road to Talnah, but even the first floating bridge across Norilka did not yet exist. As there was no suitable concert venue in the village of Geologists, they performed right on the street, since it was August. Ludmila Zykina ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Our city for those expeditions was often the place of start and finish and, given the deserted territory, the only stronghold of civilization. Here they bought necessities, had bath and ‘culturally rested’. Norilsk greeted such guests cordially, but it could not do without curiosities. For ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Drivers lived in cabins for weeks, and if the train was covered with snow, people walked to the nearest housing. Such a sledge-tractor train traveled a hundred-kilometer distance between Norilsk and Dudinka in an average of two weeks. To “encourage and increase the tractor team’s ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Putorana is completely composed of basalts, that is, of solidified lava. Its source - a giant supervolcano - was active on this site about 252 million years ago. This volcano was not a huge mountain with a vent and a crater - lava poured out ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. When the combine was transferred to the NKVD, Mahotkin was already considered an old-timer here and showed the new authorities lakes and rivers from a bird's eye view. In 1936, he made a record flight on the Krasnoyarsk - Dudinka line, covering a distance of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The drama Thirst over the Stream was the first work of the young director Konstantin Osin. The movie action took place in a hydrological party in the Far North. The authors kept the name of our all-Union Komsomol construction site in the script, just slightly ...